Mojan Sharafi

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Mojan Sharafi

MS Student
Majoring in Architechure

Mojan Sharafi is a Graduate Student Researcher at the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at UCLA, working under the supervision of Dr. Ali Mosleh. She is pursuing her Master of Architecture with a focus on sustainable design and risk management in the built environment. With a background in architectural engineering and industrial engineering, Mojan’s work integrates interdisciplinary approaches to address challenges in risk management and sustainability. She is currently exploring innovative methods to bridge these fields and contribute to research that advances resilient and sustainable systems.

Pranav Sawant

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Pranav Sawant

MS Student
Majoring in Materials Science and Engineering

Pranav is a graduate student at UCLA pursuing his Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He is passionate about reliability engineering and risk analysis, with a particular focus on hydrogen-based systems. His current research involves modeling hydrogen flow systems and conducting Failure Mode Analysis to identify and mitigate risks in critical components. Pranav's academic journey includes an exchange program at UC Berkeley, where he explored Modelling and Simulation of Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Composite and Optical Materials. During his undergrad in Chemical Engineering, Pranav has worked on diverse projects, including lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. During his professional journey, he gained hands-on experience in pilot-scale up at Mars Materials.

Shrey Upadhyay

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Shrey Upadhyay

MS Student
Majoring in Quantum Science and Technology

Shrey Upadhyay is an R&D Engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles working in the quantum optimization of sensing hardware through the application of quantum algorithms via simulations. He holds a Master's degree in Quantum Science and Technology from UCLA, where he conducted research on developing novel techniques for quantum network optimization and error correction under the supervision of Prof. Enrique Lopez Droguett. During his Bachelor of Science in Physics, Shrey was a founding member and led a startup focused on quantum finance and portfolio optimization along with working on quantum error correction protocols and architectures.

Maryam Ghamarchehreh

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Maryam Ghamarchehreh

PhD Student
Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, working under the supervision of Dr. Enrique López Droguett. I hold an M.S. in Structural Mechanics from UCLA and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. My research at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences focuses on advancing methodologies to enable agencies to integrate quantitative risk assessment at both the project and network levels.

Sahil Dubey

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Sahil Dubey

MS Student
Majoring in Materials Science & Engineering

Sahil Dubey is a graduate student pursuing his masters in Materials Science & Engineering at UCLA. Currently, he is working in Dr. Ali Mosleh's group on the Hydrogen project where he is understanding how pipeline steels behave under the influence of hydrogen gas and developing simulation modeling to examine the fracture toughness and crack growth rate of the pipelines. Prior to UCLA, Sahil obtained his bachelor's degree in Materials Science & Engineering from Arizona State University (ASU). During his time at ASU, he has used a fatigue growth machine, used many microscopes such as scanning electron microscope, laser confocal microscope, have done accelerated aging tests using heat drying oven, and learned molecular dynamics simulations such as VASP, LAMMPS, and Simulink. 

Devasmit Dutta

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Devasmit Dutta

MS Student
Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

My name is Devasmit Dutta. I’ve completed my undergraduate in Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Bhubaneswar. Currently I’m a 2nd year Masters student at UCLA, in structural mechanics track in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. My research interests are finite element modeling and simulation applications for structural engineering and reliability systems. Also, I like to work on physics based and machine learning applications such as AI for wildfire simulation. 

Abhishek Salilkumar

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Abhishek Salilkumar
MS Student

Majoring in Materials Science and Engineering


Abhishek is graduate student at UCLA pursuing his Master's degree in Materials Science and Engineering. He is passionate about reliability engineering and risk analysis, with a particular interest in assessing and mitigating risks related to emerging technologies like hydrogen infrastructure. Having acquired his B.Tech degree in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, he currently works with Dr. Ali Mosleh's team on the "Pilot Testing and Assessment of Safety and Integrity of Targeted Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure for Decarbonization." During his undergrad, he worked on Additive Manufacturing, Process Optimization, as well as Modelling and Simulations.

Anna Cosmin-Spanoche

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Anna Cosmin-Spanoche
MS Student

Majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Anna Cosmin-Spanoche is a first year Master's student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. She obtained her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, with a minor in Statistics and Data Science, at UCLA this past spring. Her current research at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences (GIRS) focuses on human-system safety for heavy-duty automated vehicles. Her previous research at GIRS was in Human Reliability Analysis for Nuclear Power Plants, in a project with the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (J-NRA). She also has experience with safety and reliability in the aerospace industry, having interned twice at The Boeing Company, in their enterprise-wide Safety Management System group as a systems engineer. 

Mohammad Pishahang

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Mohammad Pishahang

PhD Candidate

Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mohammad Pishahang is a PhD candidate in Transportation Engineering at UCLA, focusing on risk and safety in the context of evacuation planning. His research integrates data analytics and machine learning to develop advanced technologies for wildfire evacuation scenarios. With a multidisciplinary engineering background, Mohammad combines theoretical insights with practical applications. He also incorporates web technologies and database systems into his projects to create tangible and impactful solutions. His work aims to enhance public safety and optimize evacuation strategies through innovative computational methods.

Gabriel San Martín Silva

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Gabriel San Martín Silva

PhD Candidate

Majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering

MS/BS University of Chile

Gabriel San Martín Silva is currently a PhD Candidate at UCLA under the supervision of Prof. Enrique López Droguett. San Martín’s undergraduate and graduate research was primarily focused on the application of Deep Learning models and Bayesian inference to prognosis and health management (PHM) problems. His current research is focused on the application of quantum computing to reliability and resilience challenges, with the objective of improving safety and efficiency in complex engineering networks.

Camila A. Correa Jullian

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Camila A. Correa Jullian

Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Candidate

M.S. University of Maryland
B.S. University of Chile

Camila is a PhD candidate of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research at the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences is focused on characterizing, modeling, and simulating operational safety risks of human-system interactions in automated systems and Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV), collaborating with the UCLA Mobility Lab. She is also part of the organizing committee of the International Workshop for Autonomous System Safety (IWASS). She obtained her Reliability Engineering MS degree from the University of Maryland in 2021, and her undergraduate Mechanical Engineering degree at the University of Chile in 2019. Her previous work has focused on modern tools for risk and reliability analysis of hydrogen fueling infrastructure and data-driven health monitoring applications in photovoltaic and thermal solar systems for diagnostic, prognostic and reinforcement learning-based operation scheduling decision-making activities.

Karthik Sankaran

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Karthik Sankaran
M.S. Student

B.Tech. Indian Institute of Technology

Karthik is a Graduate Student in Materials Science & Engineering who completed his undergraduate education in Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research involves finding failure models for predicting the reliability of Composite Materials under the guidance of Professor Mosleh. His previous work includes Modelling and Simulation of Hydrogel Networks (Monash University, Melbourne), DFTB simulation of cement components (B.A.R.C., Mumbai), and Mechanical Testing of Farming Equipment to improve quality of materials in use (IIT Bombay).

Aidin Tamhidi

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Aidin Tamhidi
Ph.D. Student

M.S. Sharif University of Technology

Aidin Tamhidi is a PhD student in Structural and Earthquake Engineering at UCLA. He received his BS and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. His current research is about Next-Generation Earthquake Field Data Measurements and their Use to Assess Earthquake Performance of Built Environment. He is conducting his research under the supervision of Professor Yousef Bozorgnia and Professor Ertugrul Taciroglu.

Minh Cao

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Minh Cao
Ph.D. Student

B.S. University of California, Los Angeles

Minh Cao is currently working as Programming Analyst and candidate M.S student in Bioengineering at UCLA. He is an expert in Signal processing, Android development and Cloud computing. His research interests mainly focus on applications of sensor networks and cloud computing in IoT mobile health care domain.